Emerald City

Jennifer Egan
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These eleven masterful stories, the first short-story collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan, deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters—models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls—are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience.
Genres: Short StoriesFictionContemporaryLiterary FictionAmericanAudiobookLiteratureTravel20th CenturyAdult
192 Pages

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